Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
确实是一部character-driven adult drama！编剧和导演可太爱凯奇了，致敬了多部凯奇的老电影！剧本本身散发着一种迷人的老派气质，很像凯奇当年的改编剧本！戏中戏的嵌套，有两个比较意外的地方，第一个是Javi并不是真正的老大，这我没想到；第二个是就在紧张刺激的时刻，发现凯奇在电影中的老婆又换成了黛米摩尔，原来已经拍了Javi的剧本！Mafia从业人员写剧本，又让我想起了伍迪艾伦的子弹横飞好莱坞！我说凯奇的女儿怎么那么眼熟呢，原来是凯特贝金赛尔和迈克尔辛的女儿，小姑娘太可爱了！轻松愉悦又不乏细节和深度，最后落脚是亲情，有合家欢那味儿了！凯奇的演技是真好！一脸大胡子，感觉再胖一点，可以演他uncle福特科波拉了！帕斯卡在狂热粉丝和冒牌大佬之间反复横跳，可可爱爱的，但是演技得努力
讨巧，刻意成分挺多的。可看得出来尼古斯拉凯奇是想表达自己对电影的热爱的。或许骨子里，是个贼自恋的人呐～
不是特别有诚意，但是看得出来凯奇想翻身了哈
挺欢乐的，打破第四面墙的手法，致敬部分诚意满满，结局有点老套……
以为会很解构很好玩，结果整个一靠彩蛋堆积起来的凯奇个人秀，整个跟红色通缉令和王牌保镖一个模式。彩蛋方面也没头号玩家 游戏之夜 死侍2有趣。只能说是凯奇接了一部好莱坞疫情下正常制作的商业大片，在反讽自己的角度来看没有什么亮点，应该说是浪费了这种角度和题材了。
影片最大的反转就是这个戏中戏了吧，所以当已经猜出这个时候观感就下降了很多。但这个情怀我还是买帐的，而且影片足够有意思。
满满的情怀。如果你也曾见证了cage的辉煌，曾经被变脸、勇闯夺命岛、空中监狱等等佳作打动过，曾经被后来的烂片之王恶心过，一定会喜欢这个片。cage扮演已经过气、落寞的自己，在意外的危机中找回勇气和家庭的温暖，重温自己的昔日荣光，仿佛我们的青春在眼前回放。
戏谑 影迷 爆米花 这种电影演的再烂 口碑也不至于差了吧 哈哈
'You are Nick fuckinggggggggggggggg whoa! Cage!'
其实凯奇的人设都是被电影评论和巨大的粉丝「营销狂欢」所「构陷」，其所谓经典代表作也不过是被大家津津乐道的一些动作片（如今看来也不过如此），于是索性自我嘲讽。看得出本片的编剧是真正的凯奇粉。而一旦黑到深处却也透露出不少「元电影」的奥秘，在这个角度（电影类型基本剖析）上倒也是本片最大的亮点。说实话凯奇的「烂片之王」头衔如今看到越来越利大于弊了。
等着瞧吧
nick fucking cage's massive journey
尼古拉斯————————凯奇！
应该算是凯奇近十年最好的电影了吧，相当于凯奇本人参加了一次以自己从影经历为主题的冒险真人秀，其中的自嘲与回顾，挺有味道。
对了，曼达洛人，穿上你的盔甲，1V1000
大概有那么三五秒钟是真诚的，剩下的时间都湮没在莫名其妙之中。
看到凯奇说重回巅峰 还是很激动 挺有意思的电影 涉及凯奇的梗好多
看到凯奇叔还在拍这些奇奇怪怪的东西我就放心了。红毒蛇可以说是权游这一波演员里面混的最风生水起的了吧，有前途有前途！
编剧和导演估计都是凯奇的死忠粉，故事马马虎虎及格分以上，但看完以后想看凯奇早期的片子了。
过于粉丝向，让凯奇自己演自己，破次元地对当初拍出不少优秀作品的年轻凯奇致敬，所呈现出来的效果的确不差，至少《疯狂原始人2》那段成功把我逗笑了。同时毛病也非常大，前半段对“非凯奇不可，凯奇独一无二”的一切铺垫，我在后半段的犯罪戏里完全没有看到。凯奇化个妆，就像《魔幻时刻》的设定一样打算凭借演员的实力去欺骗反派，结果没几分钟凯奇的伪装就被识破了。这段冗长的犯罪戏极其难看，跟整部电影的主题完全对不上，是脱节的。在这里面我没有见识到凯奇炉火纯青的演技，有的仅仅是对今非昔比的自嘲罢了。
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